Reciprocal Teaching

Reciprocal teaching is an instructional activity that takes the form of a dialogue between teachers and students regarding segments of text for the purpose of constructing the meaning of text. Reciprocal teaching is a reading technique which is thought to promote the teaching process. A reciprocal approach provides students with four specific reading strategies that are actively and consciously used to support comprehension: Questioning, Clarifying, Summarizing, and Predicting. Palincsar (1986) believes the purpose of reciprocal teaching is to facilitate a group effort between teacher and students as well as among students in the task of bringing meaning to the text.

Reciprocal teaching is best represented as a dialogue between teachers and students in which participants take turns assuming the role of teacher. -Annemarie Sullivan Palincsar

Reciprocal teaching is most effective in the context of small-group collaborative investigation, which is maintained by the teacher or reading tutor.

Cooperative Learning Techniques ... has made many contributions to cooperative learning with the Reciprocal Teaching technique ... Once back in their home group, each student is accountable for teaching his or her assigned topic ... Hedeen (2003) It differs from the original Jigsaw during the teaching portion of the activity ...

Reciprocal Teaching - Vygotsky Connection ... Refer to Learning by Teaching for additional evidence ... The intensive oral language component in Reciprocal Teaching is Vygotskian ... Reciprocal Teaching is a contemporary application of Vygotsky's theories it is used to improve students' ability to learn from text ...

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